Tag: Nation

How strong is that drink? Calculator helps figure

How strong is that drink? Calculator helps figure

Lauran Neergaard · July 3, 2014 9:40 pm

High court grants Wheaton College plea

High court grants Wheaton College plea

Mark Sherman · July 3, 2014 9:27 pm

House drops change in reporting lawmakers’ trips

House drops change in reporting lawmakers’ trips

Alan Fram · July 3, 2014 9:24 pm

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, briefs reporters at the Pentagon, Thursday, July 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Dempsey: No assault on Iraq unless US threatened

Lolita Baldor · July 3, 2014 9:03 pm

Cosmic masquerade: Habitable planet isn’t planet

Cosmic masquerade: Habitable planet isn’t planet

Washington Examiner · July 3, 2014 8:24 pm

Biden talks to Ukraine leader amid military revamp

Biden talks to Ukraine leader amid military revamp

Washington Examiner · July 3, 2014 7:46 pm

Passengers queue at the security checkpoint at the Rhein-Main airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday July 3, 2014. U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that al-Qaida is trying to develop a new and improved bomb that could go undetected through airport security. There is no indication that such a bomb has been created or that there's a specific threat to the U.S., but the Obama administration on Wednesday called for tighter security measures at foreign airports that have direct flights to the U.S. (AP Photo/dpa,Frank Rumpenhorst)

National Security

What’s behind the new airport security measures

Ken Dilanian · July 3, 2014 6:30 pm

Iraqi Kurds: Time is ripe for Kurdish independence

Iraqi Kurds: Time is ripe for Kurdish independence

Lara Jakes · July 3, 2014 5:14 pm

FILE - This Sept. 25, 2007 file photo shows an Iraqi traffic policeman inspecting a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. Former Blackwater security guard Matthew Murphy and now-indicted ex-colleague Paul Slough were friends, having survived the war in Iraq together, creating a bond that under different circumstances might have lasted a lifetime. But from the witness stand in the Blackwater criminal trial this week, Murphy testified that he saw Slough fire at least two grenades into a car where a woman and her son died, two of the victims in the deaths of 14 Iraqis on Sept. 16, 2007 in downtown Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

National Security

Former Blackwater guard testifies against friends

Pete Yost · July 3, 2014 4:47 pm

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2013 file photo shows Democratic National Committee chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. speaking in Scottsdale, Ariz. Democrats plan to travel to six cities this summer to evaluate potential sites for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Officials with the Democratic National Committee are studying how each city might accommodate the tens of thousands of party leaders and activists who will flock to the convention, where the party will nominate its next presidential candidate. Wasserman Schultz is expected to announce the host city later this year or in early 2015. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Democrats to visit potential 2016 convention sites

Ken Thomas · July 3, 2014 3:38 pm

John Williams to debut new version of US anthem

Brett Zongker · July 3, 2014 3:22 pm

FILE - This July 2, 1964 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Standing, from left, are Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill.; Rep. Clarence Brown, R-Ohio; Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn.; Rep. Charles Halleck, R-Ind.; Rep. William McCullough, R-Ohio; and Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered one of the most celebrated legislative achievements in U.S. history. Signed on July 2, 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, this law made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and barred unequal application of voter registration requirements. (AP Photo, File)

5 things to know about the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Jesse Holland · July 3, 2014 7:07 am